Right? I'm not sure what the allure of desktop email clients is. I could understand maybe if you found yourself offline a lot but what could you really accomplish without internet anyway? No new mail is coming in. You could compose messages but they wouldn't be sent. Just type up your message in text file and paste it into gmail once your connectivity is restored.
I guess I've just really missed the point of email clients or something cause people still make them and people still use them.
Well for me, I am going back to POP, actually. This is the only real way that I can be sure my 26+gb of 14 years of e-mail is safe. On my machine + backups.
You might say that is a lot of mail, an extreme case, but when you help people, have clients, customers, sell stuff, etc all communication should be saved in case.
Do you mean safe as in from corruption/deletion? Or safe from prying eyes?
If I had something digital that I really couldn't afford to lose, the first place I would turn is to Google. Same goes for security. They may have their AI bots peruse through my stuff so they can advertise to me but overall I would think data is probably safer in their hands than my own.
I know that's just my opinion. But they don't have a long record of losing data/being hacked.
Why not keep using Thunderbird? It's not like the client or the numerous extensions are suddenly going to stop working.
That said, if you are on Linux, Geary (http://www.yorba.org/projects/geary/) is great open source email client, that's built ground up for conversation style mail.
What do you want to be done to Thundebird? There are still security updates, aren't there? If they continue to update Thunderbird, maybe they make many changes that are controversial and a step backwards?
""It may turn out to be very difficult to support all three layouts (classic, wide, and vertical) without making each of them diverge further from each other, which is just an extra maintenance burden."
Then I propose dropping one or two of them and making the remaining one or two work as well as is humanely possible."
I'm a long time Thunderbird user but recently started using Evolution. I've tried it a few times in the past but didn't find the interface very appealing. It seems to have come a long way recently though and is being actively developed (1).
It worked out of the box with PGP. It worked out of the box with my LDAP based address book (both read and write unlike Thunderbird). It also seems much faster to me.
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 29.9 ms ] threadI guess I've just really missed the point of email clients or something cause people still make them and people still use them.
You might say that is a lot of mail, an extreme case, but when you help people, have clients, customers, sell stuff, etc all communication should be saved in case.
If I had something digital that I really couldn't afford to lose, the first place I would turn is to Google. Same goes for security. They may have their AI bots peruse through my stuff so they can advertise to me but overall I would think data is probably safer in their hands than my own.
I know that's just my opinion. But they don't have a long record of losing data/being hacked.
That said, if you are on Linux, Geary (http://www.yorba.org/projects/geary/) is great open source email client, that's built ground up for conversation style mail.
e.g. here: http://web.archive.org/web/20110904002532/http://weblogs.moz...
""It may turn out to be very difficult to support all three layouts (classic, wide, and vertical) without making each of them diverge further from each other, which is just an extra maintenance burden."
Then I propose dropping one or two of them and making the remaining one or two work as well as is humanely possible."
It worked out of the box with PGP. It worked out of the box with my LDAP based address book (both read and write unlike Thunderbird). It also seems much faster to me.
(1) https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/log/